Chapter 245 - Dream and Spell Conference. (1/2)

How long is the hallway of time?

People say “I hate you” a lot with their teeth clenching. However, people seldom remember that love usually foreshadows hate.

Lin Luoran feels like returning to the year when she was eighteen. She is a freshman at the university. Her roommates are chatting with each other and laughing, while she sits on her bed and listens without saying a word.

Her roommates are talking about the welcome party for the freshmen which happens tonight. The most outgoing and energetic girl in the dorm will be the presenter of the party only a few weeks after entering this school.

The girl is in the center of the crowd. She is tall and slim and she wears her hair as a ponytail. She smiles a lot. She is perfect to be the “presenter” of her happy life.

“Lin Luoran, are you really not going to join the show of our cla.s.s?” The girl is smart. She has noticed that Lin is left out and she takes the initiative to talk to her.

Everybody looks at Lin Luoran. Lin is wearing simple clothes which are out of fas.h.i.+on. Her clothes don’t match her pretty face. Most people will have the same feeling when they see Lin Luoran. In fact, the girl who will be the presenter of the party sounds a bit jealous when she talks to Lin.

“I really have no talent…” Lin Luoran answers nervously because she is not used to be the center of the crowd. Before she says more to explain that she can’t dance or sing, the “presenter” girl changes the topic. Lin never gets a chance to explain herself and n.o.body cares about this.

…

“This is for you.”

“What?!”

Lin Luoran gets fl.u.s.tered when a man expresses his love for her. Her roommates start to make a fuss.

“Say yes!”

“Right, say yes! Li seems to be a good guy!”

In the noise, Lin Luoran feels that she finally becomes the main character of her life for the first time. The roses Li Anping picks aren’t expensive, but they do show his sincerity. Lin Luoran is not sure whether she is happy or just surprised and she hesitates about taking the roses or not.

They are at the backstage of the welcome party. Lin Luoran works as an a.s.sistant. The presenter girl is fixing her make-up. She notices the noise here and she almost snaps the eyebrow pencil in her hand.

“You’re Li Anping, from the Department of Public Administration?” The presenter girl smiles and asks, pretending to be curious, “Why did you give Lin Luoran the roses?”

Li Anping scratches his head and smiles shyly,

“I don’t know. I just want to do that.”

What kind of answer is this?

All of the bystanders smile kindly. This is the night Lin Luoran will never forget.

…

More and more scenes from the past drag Lin deeper into the dream.

At first, she could remember that she was only the bystander, but she gradually gets lost.

In this long and endless dream, she is “Lin Luoran” and “Lin Luoran” is her.

Li Anping’s body is drying and aging fast, but he is still alive. His face wrinkles because of the loss of blood. Li Anping is smiling, which is so creepy.

Under this situation, even as an ordinary person, Rong Donglin guesses that if Li Anping dies, Lin Luoran will be doomed.

However, what can he do to help her?

Obviously, Rong is not the only person who is thinking about this. In the s.p.a.ce, the silver fish swings its tail, c.o.c.ks its head, and asks the fire phoenix, “Why don’t you help her?”

The fire phoenix is immersed in the smell of the spirit wine. It ignores the silver fish’s question.

Not until the silver fish becomes angry does the phoenix answer, “Being seal doesn’t equal death. If she can’t get through this on her own, how can she be qualified to own the s.p.a.ce later?”

The silver fish doesn’t know what to say. It came to the s.p.a.ce later than the fire phoenix and it only has limited knowledge about the s.p.a.ce where they live in. In its view, Lin Luoran is the only human who has free access to the s.p.a.ce. Doesn’t this make her the owner of the s.p.a.ce?

The fire phoenix stops explaining and changes the topic, “Besides, this is what she needs to bear on the path of cultivation. She needs a strong state of mind when she enters the next level later… Cultivation is hard. This is just the beginning.”